The author of such acclaimed Navajo mysteries as Skinwalkers and Talking God brings his unique gift for recreating an exotic culture and a distant place to bear on a story set in Southeast Asia, as a newspaperman searches a war-racked realm for his dead brother's child.

An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search--from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia--Moon finds himself too.